The Fascism Spectrum Asking whether the Trump regime is fascist or not is the wrong question to ask

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Just How Fascist is the Trump Regime? A Checklist

Just how fascist is the Trump regime? Here's a checklist for you to score it. davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/just-how-f...

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Sacred leaders and true believers: devotion and the politics of helplessness Sacred leaders are leaders of political movements whose followers, their “true believers,” treat them as messianic or God-like figures. Sigmund Freud’s analysis of the psychological dynamics of rel...

Trump's self-apotheosis as the new Jesus is not surprising. See my article "Sacred leaders and true believers". doi.org/10.1080/0951...

The Unthinkable Has Been Thought, The Unsayable Has Been Said A Civilizational Erasure

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Mercy, Mercy, I Have No Words There is the world. Our world. The events, the times, the stuff of our lives. Going There is where I reflect on the things that strike me.

Mercy, Mercy, I Have No Words
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Ugh

The Terrible Stickiness of Race An ideological Stockholm syndrome

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The Art of Lightness Living lightly in a dark world

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The Art of Lightness Living lightly in a dark world

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Trump's Latest Dehumanizing Slur Misogyny and Beyond

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Dehumanization and Genocide, 101 Recently, several people have written to me to ask where they can find a concise description of my theory of dehumanization.

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The Iranian Schoolgirls' Lives.... Mattered
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Just How Fascist is the Trump Regime? A Checklist

Halford E. Luccock wrote in 1938, “When and if fascism comes to America, it will not be labelled ‘made in Germany’; it will not be marked with a swastika; it will not even be called fascism; it will be called, of course, ‘Americanism’.” davidlivingstonesmith.substack.com/p/just-how-f...

Ep. 73- Babi Yar History and Memory with Victoria Khiterer - The Holocaust History Podcast It was the largest open shooting of the Holocaust (and perhaps in history).  Yet the murder in Babi Yar of 33,000+ Jews and other victims remained for much of its postwar life, unmarked and uncom...

In this episode, we go back to Babi Yar, the largest open-air shooting of the Holocaust which took place in Kyiv in September 1941.

I talked with Victoria Khiterer about the massacre, bystanders, and the incredible struggle to commemorate this event.

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This looks fascinating

Next event in this series is *tonight*, Mon 9 March, as 12 noon Pacific (note that this is 8pm GMT; the US changed clocks yesterday):

Dr. Lucy Suchman is tonight's guest on "Critical Perspectives on 'AI' in Education."
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"Lethality, Lethality, Lethality" Pete Hegseth’s fondness for the word “lethality” makes me shiver.

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Reckoning With Their Deaths This morning, I awoke to nothing.

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12 characteristics of fascism according to scholars of history.

I’d say MAGA is 12 for 12. You?

The Secretary of Homeland Security Was Not Fired for…. The murder of Ms.

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Just How Fascist is the Trump Regime? A Checklist

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What About the Children? There is the world. Our world. The events, the times, the stuff of our lives. Going There is where I reflect on the things that strike me.

What About the Children?
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A Meditation on Helplessness And so it is, another day, another front.

A Meditation on Helplessness
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Promises Made Were Never Meant to Be Kept The experts are all reciting the so-called promise of “no more forever wars.” Did such thoughtful people believe that it was a real promise?

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